Flourishing with dyslexia + Battlebots + Black history at MIT

PhD students Lucy Du ’14, SM ’16 and Ginger Schmidt are crushing the competition — and gender barriers — in the world of televised robot combat.

Steven Spear SM ’93, a senior lecturer of system dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, helps organizations develop the optimal social circuitry.

Shift+OPEN will flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model.

Postdoc Lydia Harrington and Boston University postdoc Chloe Bordewich discuss their exhibit at the MIT Rotch Library on Boston’s former Little Syria neighborhood. “We want to show very positive things that Syrians brought with them, as well as their contributions to Boston,” says Harrington. “We wanted to show things in the exhibit that showed everyday life and well-known people in the neighborhood.”